Only a fool would trust a [any] company. Ever. You work towards making your life better, they work towards making theirs better. The two rarely converge.
I guess Mac users must have been really unhappy and suicidal up to now that they couldn't use "every application available to their Windows counterparts"...
Like Windows would be the definitive solution for everyone's sw/app needs on this planet.
Why does the article writer think that the beauty or ugliness of a website has such connections with the popularity or generated revenue ? This only shows that the site's creator isn't a web designer guru, nothing more. If the services provided are worth the money, I'd certainly use and pay for it, even if the looks of the site needs to be desired. Besides, nice or ugly, it's really subjective stuff, shouldn't be the basis of such speculations.
Well, we don't pay (EU country here) for receiving calls, i.e. there's no explicit fee that they call it that way, but it's probably included in the prices, they just don't tell you explicitely which part of the prices it is and how much it is. I agree, it sounds very bad when they tell you you have to pay for receiving calls, but it doesn't really matter since you pay them well either way. But if you go roaming in foreign networks you still have to pay for both receiving and initiating calls, but there they tell you that explicitely. All in all, it's just difference in terminology and phone network history.
Where I live (EU country) _every_ cell phone provider gives you the unlock code after certain number of years spent with them (1-2-3 years, it depends), and this is included in the service terms/contract. Of cours you can unlock your phone in the meantime if you want by yourself, but your warranty goes void with thet step.
To be wildly general, there are ways of doing things in the US that would seem extremely wierd for outsiders, which is also true vice versa, this is just one of those.
Yeah, right. Open source software development is seen by many as the enemy, but when they want to get people working for them for free, then open source suddenly becomes the friend. In FOSS development people make software openly, create it, and give it to the people (to use, to modify, etc.), for everybody's use and benefit. This is hardly the case here.
I see no problem if they seek volunteers for free translations. But don't come up with such silly comparisons.
So, let's say I have a site, my site, but publically and freely accessible on the net. Let's suppose I dedicate a part of my site to recommend some other sites which I find interesting, good, trustworthy, etc. You can say that I have an algorithm by which I produce a ranking based on the number of sites I usually visit. Then, someday, a wierdo comes up to me and sues me because his site is lower on my list than some other sites. I'm not a company like Google or any other indexing&search company, still, the principle isn't far. This is so utterly nonsense that I can't even find the word to describe how sorry I feel for such idiots. Not that we haven't seen some similar nonsense-smelling sue-stories recently.
And btw, a site's pagerank value might be low because of several things, like there are not many high ranking sites linking to it or there aren't a high number of visitors, among many other things. Saying that I have less visitors - and less revenue [well, this sounds like RIAA complaining about non-bought albums like they knew exactly how many they would have sold] - because low ranking is a very superficial to say the least.
I first saw Tron as a small kid. Didn't understand much, but I remember that I liked it, the looks, the heroes, the glowing fresbees, everything. During the years I watched it a couple of times and I always liked it. Now I have the latest DVD, and I just watched it recently, and guess what, I still like it:D Thing is, every time I watch it with a different perspective, when a kid, I took it seriously, good guy bad guy fighting whatever, this last time I thought it was real fun, I laughed on the lines a lot. It's a great movie. It is because more than 20 years have passed and people can still have good time watching it. I could list some 15-20+ years old movies that also are similarly good, but that's another story.
Now come on, flamebait ? What other sane reason could you come up with for somebody suing a search engine for indexing his comments made on a publically accessible mailing list ? That, or he was just simply stupid. Never mind.
It seems there are more and more people who don't have or don't want anything else to do but sit home and think about who and how they could sue for some money. Then they buy some fastfood and sit down again to think on their next target.
Geez, my eyes just popped out and rolled away in astonishment. I just measured, about 6000 lines of c++&mfc code in vs2k5 fully rebuilded in about 11s on a 2800+ sempron and 10s on a 2800+ barton. I also did anothet test, a c++/mfc project with around 28000 lines fully rebuilded in 8s in vs6 on a 2800+ barton, which is closer to your time (~8/3s), but it's vs6.
I didn't write large stuff in c# up to now, but when I wrote something in it, compile times seemed slower than c++ (in vs2k3 and vs2k5) even for simple apps. So how'd you manage to compile ~9000 lines of c# code on a 2.5ghz rig, I can't see.
I don't care how much money a sw dev company can spare by writing less optimized code. Software and hardware companies just have to make use of each other to make us pay our yearly sw&hw upgrade cash. Still, I can't do anything against or about it. There's one thing I can do, make the best out of my own code, not much else.
witnessed farmers from other countries come over to the states to learn how to improve their own yields
Well, they should've just gone to my grandparents to learn about that, hands on, in practice. And they never had phds in anything, but the knowledge of generations, and dozens of years of experience. There's no phd I'd value more than that.
Ok, so the idea is not new, the implementation for many people here wouldn't be a problem, so the only reason for the hype must be this guy's age... which is again no reason to celebrate this one guy. Ok, credit has to be given, he managed to raise attention, but that's more about hie (or whoever raised the news) pr skills. 17 years that doesn' count that much young in the programming realm, not today, not in the past. Hell, some of my 17 years old friends - that was around '95 - created wonderful pieces of software (and even before, we started coding with one of my friends years before that on everything we could get our hands on), and today kids gather programming knowledge much earlier. Don't want to seem to talk from some high horse, but I have to tell, when you are sorrounded by talented people, such "news" don't seem news anymore. Of course, for the general audience it's a different matter.
Again, I don't want to diminish or lessen this guy's achievements, I just feel that if we praise him, we should praise everybody else with such and similar and better achiements also. But we'd probably have to dedicate an entire site for these kids:].
Anyway, I congratulate him for managing to get on slahdot:) (or is that too easy these days ?:P)
Even four of those 8xx series cpus don't consume that much, and they don't say that either, they just say it has such a psu. I don't think that even simultaenously having and using the 4 cpus, the 64 gigs of ram, the 2 scsi discs, the 4 sata discs, the 2xgig network ports and some cooling fans would consume that much.
:D Yeah, one really has to be IT-related so as not to cough up yesterday's food when reading such comparison involving Keira Knightley and a quadX2 opteron board:D
I think I'm not alone when my reaction to such crap usually is something like take your assurances to some pr-publishing journals for the masses, we're only interested in professional quality products, and unless Live search site will prove to be ["will" = i.e. I still don't see it as such] a worthy competitor with providing some megnitudes more quality and/or service, I'm not interested.
I don't think I understand this right... some people seem to suggest Mozilla and co. making some money is a bad thing ? It's the new fashion to hate people when they finally get some real money for the work they've done and are doing ? Maybe, if they were some huge bad company making buggy and unsecure and unstable and unusable software and would get bloody rich with it. Other than that, I just wish them good luck, and even more luck and money in the future, until they continue to make good and free apps, and I absolutely don't have anything against them getting per click/search/ad/etc money from Google. For other companies which produce closed source good or bad software for sh*t loads of money with lenghty release cycles and unfrequent patches and updates, I don't feel anything for them, they are just another fish in the pond that try to take our money.
"non-standard" ? oh, you mean not from that list that windows has out of the box support... or you mean that hardware is "standard" that windows can run on... both are bogus, I say if there's osx and there's linux running on it, than that's standard enough (windows not being able to boot on it it's a rather different story... and quite a boring one), so if you mean something else than those two versions above, tell us please
I once thought I could get away without 3.5 floppies anymore. I was wrong.
In my virtual crusade againt windows installers in this century, have to add that the only thing you really need floppy disks these days is the windows installer, since it can not load drivers from anything else than drive a
Other than that, there has not been FDDs in my machines I use for more than 6 years now. Flashing bios can be done by booting from cd/dvd or usb.
Last time I needed an FDD was, nobody would guess:), when I had to install a winxp on one of our new machines that came with sata drives and raid controllers, winxp needed driver floppies for both. I guess it will be a wonderous day when windows installer will be able to read from opical drives, hdds, partitions, ftp/nfs/samba/http shares, or give you a usable booting environment.
I will really like this. Mail, chat and calendar all in one place, with a nice interface and enough storage. I usually do work from 3 different places, from 4 computers, and accessing everything from Gmail will be a fine indeed, easier than always synch.ing calendars, and sometimes forgetting to do so. What we could spend quite an amount of time talking about would be privacy and security related issues, but I'm willing to lower some bars if this thing will be as functional as I expect it to be.
Back when I was in my last year at university I went to a job interview to a.net dev company. Everything went fine, the fellas I talked to seemed ok, tests I had to pass were not that PITA, the money seemed ok too. Yet, I didn't work there, not even for a day. Why ? Yes, "open" office.
Back to the present, I have now a full time and a part time job. In the part time job my place is in a cubicle, sort of, 3 workplaces in a box, about 2m high "walls" between boxes. I only took it, because I only have to spend max. 2 days/week there, and I can also work remotely at times.
And I know I'm not alone with this. FYI, I'm not a bad team player, still, I need my place where I can do my part alone. And yes, music.
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Microsoft has lost credibility. Period.
Only a fool would trust a [any] company. Ever. You work towards making your life better, they work towards making theirs better. The two rarely converge.
WTF ?!
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No, wait... WTF !?
I guess Mac users must have been really unhappy and suicidal up to now that they couldn't use "every application available to their Windows counterparts"
Like Windows would be the definitive solution for everyone's sw/app needs on this planet.
Never mind.
Why does the article writer think that the beauty or ugliness of a website has such connections with the popularity or generated revenue ? This only shows that the site's creator isn't a web designer guru, nothing more. If the services provided are worth the money, I'd certainly use and pay for it, even if the looks of the site needs to be desired. Besides, nice or ugly, it's really subjective stuff, shouldn't be the basis of such speculations.
Well, we don't pay (EU country here) for receiving calls, i.e. there's no explicit fee that they call it that way, but it's probably included in the prices, they just don't tell you explicitely which part of the prices it is and how much it is. I agree, it sounds very bad when they tell you you have to pay for receiving calls, but it doesn't really matter since you pay them well either way. But if you go roaming in foreign networks you still have to pay for both receiving and initiating calls, but there they tell you that explicitely. All in all, it's just difference in terminology and phone network history.
Where I live (EU country) _every_ cell phone provider gives you the unlock code after certain number of years spent with them (1-2-3 years, it depends), and this is included in the service terms/contract. Of cours you can unlock your phone in the meantime if you want by yourself, but your warranty goes void with thet step.
To be wildly general, there are ways of doing things in the US that would seem extremely wierd for outsiders, which is also true vice versa, this is just one of those.
he same open source principle'
Yeah, right. Open source software development is seen by many as the enemy, but when they want to get people working for them for free, then open source suddenly becomes the friend. In FOSS development people make software openly, create it, and give it to the people (to use, to modify, etc.), for everybody's use and benefit. This is hardly the case here.
I see no problem if they seek volunteers for free translations. But don't come up with such silly comparisons.
So, let's say I have a site, my site, but publically and freely accessible on the net. Let's suppose I dedicate a part of my site to recommend some other sites which I find interesting, good, trustworthy, etc. You can say that I have an algorithm by which I produce a ranking based on the number of sites I usually visit. Then, someday, a wierdo comes up to me and sues me because his site is lower on my list than some other sites. I'm not a company like Google or any other indexing&search company, still, the principle isn't far. This is so utterly nonsense that I can't even find the word to describe how sorry I feel for such idiots. Not that we haven't seen some similar nonsense-smelling sue-stories recently.
And btw, a site's pagerank value might be low because of several things, like there are not many high ranking sites linking to it or there aren't a high number of visitors, among many other things. Saying that I have less visitors - and less revenue [well, this sounds like RIAA complaining about non-bought albums like they knew exactly how many they would have sold] - because low ranking is a very superficial to say the least.
I first saw Tron as a small kid. Didn't understand much, but I remember that I liked it, the looks, the heroes, the glowing fresbees, everything. During the years I watched it a couple of times and I always liked it. Now I have the latest DVD, and I just watched it recently, and guess what, I still like it :D Thing is, every time I watch it with a different perspective, when a kid, I took it seriously, good guy bad guy fighting whatever, this last time I thought it was real fun, I laughed on the lines a lot. It's a great movie. It is because more than 20 years have passed and people can still have good time watching it. I could list some 15-20+ years old movies that also are similarly good, but that's another story.
Now come on, flamebait ? What other sane reason could you come up with for somebody suing a search engine for indexing his comments made on a publically accessible mailing list ? That, or he was just simply stupid. Never mind.
It seems there are more and more people who don't have or don't want anything else to do but sit home and think about who and how they could sue for some money. Then they buy some fastfood and sit down again to think on their next target.
Geez, my eyes just popped out and rolled away in astonishment. I just measured, about 6000 lines of c++&mfc code in vs2k5 fully rebuilded in about 11s on a 2800+ sempron and 10s on a 2800+ barton. I also did anothet test, a c++/mfc project with around 28000 lines fully rebuilded in 8s in vs6 on a 2800+ barton, which is closer to your time (~8/3s), but it's vs6.
I didn't write large stuff in c# up to now, but when I wrote something in it, compile times seemed slower than c++ (in vs2k3 and vs2k5) even for simple apps. So how'd you manage to compile ~9000 lines of c# code on a 2.5ghz rig, I can't see.
I don't care how much money a sw dev company can spare by writing less optimized code. Software and hardware companies just have to make use of each other to make us pay our yearly sw&hw upgrade cash. Still, I can't do anything against or about it. There's one thing I can do, make the best out of my own code, not much else.
witnessed farmers from other countries come over to the states to learn how to improve their own yields
Well, they should've just gone to my grandparents to learn about that, hands on, in practice. And they never had phds in anything, but the knowledge of generations, and dozens of years of experience. There's no phd I'd value more than that.
europeans are threatening everybody lately
A very interesting point of view... Not.
Ok, so the idea is not new, the implementation for many people here wouldn't be a problem, so the only reason for the hype must be this guy's age... which is again no reason to celebrate this one guy. Ok, credit has to be given, he managed to raise attention, but that's more about hie (or whoever raised the news) pr skills. 17 years that doesn' count that much young in the programming realm, not today, not in the past. Hell, some of my 17 years old friends - that was around '95 - created wonderful pieces of software (and even before, we started coding with one of my friends years before that on everything we could get our hands on), and today kids gather programming knowledge much earlier. Don't want to seem to talk from some high horse, but I have to tell, when you are sorrounded by talented people, such "news" don't seem news anymore. Of course, for the general audience it's a different matter.
:].
:) (or is that too easy these days ? :P)
Again, I don't want to diminish or lessen this guy's achievements, I just feel that if we praise him, we should praise everybody else with such and similar and better achiements also. But we'd probably have to dedicate an entire site for these kids
Anyway, I congratulate him for managing to get on slahdot
1 kw is a lot of juice. per 1U.
Even four of those 8xx series cpus don't consume that much, and they don't say that either, they just say it has such a psu. I don't think that even simultaenously having and using the 4 cpus, the 64 gigs of ram, the 2 scsi discs, the 4 sata discs, the 2xgig network ports and some cooling fans would consume that much.
:D Yeah, one really has to be IT-related so as not to cough up yesterday's food when reading such comparison involving Keira Knightley and a quadX2 opteron board :D
And I can assure you the onslaught of upcoming
I think I'm not alone when my reaction to such crap usually is something like take your assurances to some pr-publishing journals for the masses, we're only interested in professional quality products, and unless Live search site will prove to be ["will" = i.e. I still don't see it as such] a worthy competitor with providing some megnitudes more quality and/or service, I'm not interested.
I don't think I understand this right... some people seem to suggest Mozilla and co. making some money is a bad thing ? It's the new fashion to hate people when they finally get some real money for the work they've done and are doing ? Maybe, if they were some huge bad company making buggy and unsecure and unstable and unusable software and would get bloody rich with it. Other than that, I just wish them good luck, and even more luck and money in the future, until they continue to make good and free apps, and I absolutely don't have anything against them getting per click/search/ad/etc money from Google. For other companies which produce closed source good or bad software for sh*t loads of money with lenghty release cycles and unfrequent patches and updates, I don't feel anything for them, they are just another fish in the pond that try to take our money.
Well, you'd better take a look at kontact because it supports such subscription schemes you described there.
We ave just bought a dual xeon config which has an intel mboard with efi, so it's [i.e. boards with efi] not something you can't find and buy.
"non-standard" ? oh, you mean not from that list that windows has out of the box support... or you mean that hardware is "standard" that windows can run on... both are bogus, I say if there's osx and there's linux running on it, than that's standard enough (windows not being able to boot on it it's a rather different story... and quite a boring one), so if you mean something else than those two versions above, tell us please
I once thought I could get away without 3.5 floppies anymore. I was wrong.
:), when I had to install a winxp on one of our new machines that came with sata drives and raid controllers, winxp needed driver floppies for both. I guess it will be a wonderous day when windows installer will be able to read from opical drives, hdds, partitions, ftp/nfs/samba/http shares, or give you a usable booting environment.
In my virtual crusade againt windows installers in this century, have to add that the only thing you really need floppy disks these days is the windows installer, since it can not load drivers from anything else than drive a
Other than that, there has not been FDDs in my machines I use for more than 6 years now. Flashing bios can be done by booting from cd/dvd or usb.
Last time I needed an FDD was, nobody would guess
I will really like this. Mail, chat and calendar all in one place, with a nice interface and enough storage. I usually do work from 3 different places, from 4 computers, and accessing everything from Gmail will be a fine indeed, easier than always synch.ing calendars, and sometimes forgetting to do so. What we could spend quite an amount of time talking about would be privacy and security related issues, but I'm willing to lower some bars if this thing will be as functional as I expect it to be.
Back when I was in my last year at university I went to a job interview to a .net dev company. Everything went fine, the fellas I talked to seemed ok, tests I had to pass were not that PITA, the money seemed ok too. Yet, I didn't work there, not even for a day. Why ? Yes, "open" office.
Back to the present, I have now a full time and a part time job. In the part time job my place is in a cubicle, sort of, 3 workplaces in a box, about 2m high "walls" between boxes. I only took it, because I only have to spend max. 2 days/week there, and I can also work remotely at times.
And I know I'm not alone with this. FYI, I'm not a bad team player, still, I need my place where I can do my part alone. And yes, music.